nostalgic - Story 93976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Reynolds?" It was Brenda, her eyes gleaming with anticipation. "I was wondering, do you think I could borrow a small corner of your yard for a garden? I'd love to grow some tomatoes."

He remembered his grandmother's tomato plants, heavy with fruit, the sweet, earthy aroma filling the summer air. His stomach rumbled faintly. A pleasant tingling spread through his limbs. “Of course, Brenda. That sounds lovely. Come on in, let’s pick the best spot."

Emotion: nostalgic

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): 1.00 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.93

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion nostalgic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 nostalgic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the nostalgic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the nostalgic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`H`	0.677
`L`	0.647
`시절`	0.611
`nostalgic`	0.609
`fondly`	0.609

Suppressed:

`-`	-0.564
`either`	-0.525
`or`	-0.497
`싶`	-0.487
`l`	-0.449